Judges maintain bans on gender-affirming care for youth in Tennessee and Kentucky

AP ^ | 04/25/2024 | JONATHAN MATTISE

[SeekAndFind]

Tennessee and Kentucky can continue to ban gender-affirming care for young transgender people while legal challenges against those state laws proceed, federal appeals judges ruled.

In a 2-1 decision by a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel late Thursday, the majority wrote that elected lawmakers made “precise cost-benefit decisions” in instituting the bans and “did not trigger any reason for judges to second-guess them.” The laws were passed by Republican majorities in both states.

“Prohibiting citizens and legislatures from offering their perspectives on high-stakes medical policies, in which compassion for the child points in both directions, is not something life-tenured federal judges should do without a clear warrant in the Constitution,” Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton wrote.

The laws had already kicked in under previous rulings by the appeals judges, despite decisions in lower courts that temporarily kept significant parts of the bans from taking effect. The new ruling overturns the preliminary injunctions that trial court judges had issued.

In dissent, Judge Helene White wrote that the laws “discriminate based on sex and gender conformity and intrude on the well-established province of parents to make medical decisions for their minor children.”

At least 22 states have now enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, and most have faced lawsuits. While Tennessee and Kentucky can press on with their bans, the status of other states’ laws is scattershot after judges left some of the prohibitions in place and elsewhere blocked others.

[PGR88]

How Orwellian that the term “gender affirming care” actually means exactly the opposite: Making money cutting-off the sexual organs of children to promote the fantasy and mental illness that they are a different gender from that which they were born with.

[RandFan]

We need to make the defense counsel aware that a 4 year review in the UK led by Dr. Hilary Cass found that puberty blockers destroyed the lives of under 18s and is now banned!

She has received nothing but abuse after her landmark report

Hilary Cass warned of threats to safety after ‘vile’ abuse over NHS gender services review

[Freest Republican]

“Judge Helene White wrote that the laws “discriminate based on sex and gender conformity and intrude on the well-established province of parents to make medical decisions for their minor children.””

AI response to the dingbat.
“there is no long-term evidence demonstrating the safety or efficacy of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgeries. These interventions are experimental, and parents cannot provide informed consent for them, nor can minors assent to these procedures.”

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[Demiurge2]

Any time you see a news story with “gender-affirming care,” assume you’re reading BS.